The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-04-28

grudged him to most Of his old fr1enus
faced that she did net cure he should SEQ
much Of his bachelor acquaintance any
more.
AS we walked toward Waverley place
could not help conjecture or two as to
the reason for his mysterious conduct.
Was he an exile because of a vulgar
scrape, or through quarrel with his OWL
family7 Was he Tilted, had no been hope
lessly in debt, or had he involved himself
with woman whom he discovered it i'm
possible to marrys
Raymond insisted should come to his
apartments, his wife being absent doing
penance at family dinner, but expected
to return soon. When she entered was
greeted with more cordiaity than ever
before, and among other things alluded to
the young Engishman.
81 don't like him. she remarked.
"And pray, why notl" exclaimed.
"He is intelligent, well read, q quick and
good talker, handsome in his way-and
worships your husband" "
stI don't like him" !" said Mrs. Raymond,
taking up her knitting with the most COM
placent air, as if "I don't like him.
settled the matter logically, psychologist
ally and sociologically for good and all.
RAYMOND beamed down on his wife and
remarked:
"She thinks his fiber Is weak-isn't that
the expression, my dear!'
Mrs. Raymond set her small sharp
curved mouth:
s.No, my dear, that is your expression"
and, turning to me: "There are points in
your character do not like, but on the
whole you will do. At any rate, you are
not weak. IF you did wrong you would
expect and abide by the consequences.
But this young Observation-Disclosures he
chooses just now to call himself-I must
say the only reason for his existence that
know Of Is to make me prouder than
ever of my hush"
She was not allowed to finish, and, as
an old friend of both, turned to the
photograph album until little scufie
was over.
On leaving the apartments I took a
walk, as Is my won't before going to bed,
Notwithstanding the fearful condition Of
tho streets, making a long loop about the
square through Fourth street and Broad
way. It had cleared overhead and the
moon was out. AS turned into Waver-
ley place I saw q figure at the side en-
trance Of the New York hotel whom
took for man much the worse for drink,
and paid little heed TO- But just as I
passed looked up and thought it was the
young Englishman we had dined with. I
even hesitated; but the bowed head,
trembling hands, and uncertain knees OF
the figure belonged to much older man,
and as he seemed to be only steadying
himself to enter the hotel, it occasioned
me only shrug of pity and sigh. 7
glanced at the windows Of the hotel and
wondered what furthur discoveries in the
matter Of American types my high nosed
young English gentlewoman had made
since she submitted me to her examina-
don. She clung to my memory for some
reason, as If she has something to say to
me, some inquiry to make of far larger
importance than the whereabouts Of O
hotel.
AS rose the stairs to my rooms the
youths face and talk returned to me, also
what Raymond's g wife had said, and then
his speech about suicides, and! I said to.
myself: "Anyhow, q man 80 light hearted
and straightforward looking can have
nothing criminal on his conscience"
When I fell asleep it must have been
about midnight, and as I dozed off it oc-
CURED to me as odd that, while lay on
my left side looking eastward, the young
Englishman and the two travellers [ had
met must be Just now in one line with me
west and east, for the tower In which he
slept rose exactly between me and the
New York hotel. s'What nonsensef' vas
my last waking thought.
7 might have slept ten minutes or a
week, when my eyes opened. The great
door that leads out on the roof was
strangely white; doubtless, it was the
moon that had stolen through the west
window over my bed, and now shone
almost level through the room-that was
it. But no. Through the door there was
q depth of whiteness like glancing into q
tunnel lined with porcelain, and at its end
stood in profile still whittier figure, with
one hand pointed slightly downward.
could not distinguish the features, but the
figure recalled some one had seen some
where. In moment it was gone, and
closed my eyes with resolve not to forget
that I had, Us it were, caught in the actu-
ality Of an hallucination dream such as
weaves itself out OF random occurrences
of the day. -
Asleep In q moment, Ilay-how longs
Suddenly was awake again. The light
Yves stronger, the tunnel was not there,
but Just across the room at my door
stood the same figure, the features not
perfectly distinct, but the flowing hair and
night dress unmistakable. Was it the
young had metz But what look!
I have seen actresses that sent the chills
through one, and have seen people in
grief, but this face froze the roots of ones
being, it was 80 terrible in its striving to
explain something that might be too hor-
rible to utter-its figure was so torn by
the effort to express by gesticulation what
its tongue could not or would not Inn
part!
Rubbing my eyes as I raised myself in
bed, the apparitio1L was gone, and by the
broad light Of the setting moon all the
familiar pictures and odds and ends OF the
room smiled on me so serenely that fell
back again reassured
Yet, I thought: Can it be possible that
something is happening to that girl, who
ever, wherever she may be, or to some
ono she loves? And has her spirit been
able to break the bounds Of matter and
call for help' How many persons believe
that between certain minds and minds the
will power can under favorable circum-
stances exert itself through space! Then
I reviewed the scientific men who have
given whole OF partial adhesion to the
claims Of psychologists held In bad repute
by science generally, and recalled how
universaly-in all parts Of the world, In
all nations, at all epochs-action of this